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Best Shows This Week (July 15 - 21) in NYC

Foo Fighters, Hurray For The Riff Raff (free), blink-182, OFF!, Cola, Mary Timony (free), Wand, The Folk Implosion, Snõõper, A Place To Bury Strangers, Laraaji (free), Mx Lonely, Lambrini Girls, Ultramagnetic MCs & more!

July 15, 2024

TUESDAY
Spazzy Nashville art punks Snõõper play on the roof of Elsewhere on a hot summer's evening. Should be pretty gõõd.
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WEDNESDAY
Montreal's Cola (ex-Ought) brings their fizzy post punk to Bowery Ballroom. Catch the wave.
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WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY
Foo Fighters play two shows at Citi Field with excellent support each night. Guaranteed I'll wonder, when I sing along with you at this show, if everything could ever be this real forever, if anything could ever be this good again.
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WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
Hurray for the Riff Raff musically celebrates society's undesirables at National Sawdust, presented by The Grammy Museum, and with a *free show* in Battery Park City for River & Blues 2024 Fest.
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THURSDAY
L.A. psychedelic magicians Wand play Bowery Ballroom. Abracadabra, mannn.
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FRIDAY
Hip hop luminaries Ultramagnetic MCs and Kool Keith play Brooklyn Bowl. Miss this show and you deserve a critical beatdown.
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FRIDAY
Up-and-comers Mx Lonely, Bleary Eyed, Punchlove and Ringing play shoegaze-adjacent stacked bill at Market Hotel.
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FRIDAY
Noisy Brighton queer punks Lambrini Girls play a riotously fun show at The Sultan Room with thrashy D.C. post ___ art punks Ekko Astral and former Oh My Rockness Hardest-Working Band champs, Pons.
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FRIDAY
Transcendent multi-instrumentalist Laraaji plays a *free show* at the Whitney Museum.
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SATURDAY
Punk supergroup OFF! play their final NYC show ever with punk super group Fucked Up at (Le) Poisson Rouge. It's ON.
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SATURDAY
A Place to Bury Strangers, Lip Critic, Pons and more play a loud outdoor music + art + food fest in beautiful Staten Island.
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SUNDAY
blink-182 play Citi Field. Can't go. Gotta stay home to let in the washing machine repairman. Well, I guess this is growing up.
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SUNDAY
The Folk Implosion (Lou Barlow and John Davis) play their first NYC show in circa forever at TV Eye. 21+. Sorry, Kids.
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SUNDAY
Indie rock hero Mary Timony (Helium/Wild Flag/Ex Hex etc) plays a *free show* at Union Pool for Summer Thunder. Totally worth paying for even though you totally don't have to.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
Amyl and the Sniffers, Small Black, Glass Animals, Priya Ragu (free show), Oneida, Wormy/Wormfest (win tickets), Shilpa Ray, My Son The Doctor, Divine Sweater, Brijean (win tickets), Iron Chic, Action Bronson, Ben Howard (win tickets), Toots & Maytals, Ray Bull/May Rio (free show), Sidney Gish, Grumpy, KITTIE (win tickets), The Hives, Noah Kahan, Daryl Hall, Elvis Costello, The Atomic Bitchwax, SPEED, Endless Bummer (free show), Kid Cudi, Bodegapartyy (win tickets), Old Crow Medicine Show, Night Cap (win tickets), Go Home, Kill Alters, Third Eye Blind, Thomas Dolby, Landon Barker (win tickets), Zero Point Energy, Ryan Lee Crosby (win tickets), Anna Altman, Luge, Queen of Jeans, Charley Crockett (win tickets), The Bouncing Souls, Sheer Mag, Merce Lemon, your arms are my cocoon, Steve Earle and more!

PLUS:
29 Free Shows This Week!